Mitch McConnell

Putnam competition: Republican Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam will finally be getting some gubernatorial primary competition next week. I say that with about 85 percent certainty. About a month ago, state Sen. Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, pegged Aug. 16 as the date of a big announcement on his political future. Yesterday, he announced that the announcement would come in Hialeah. Latvala will make a 9 a.m. stop at a fire station there before following it up with a 1 p.m. stop in Clearwater and a 5 p.m. appearance in Panama City.

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Putnam competition: Republican Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam will finally be getting some gubernatorial primary competition next week. I say that with about 85 percent certainty. About a month ago, state Sen. Jack Latvala,...

Welcome to a very wet Thursday in South Florida. Hope you brought your umbrellas. I did not, and I am typing this in a very damp state. But hey, at least my week isn't going as badly as that of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston.
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Senate Republicans suffered a dramatic failure early Friday in their bid to advance a scaled-back plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, throwing into question whether they can actually repeal the 2010 health law.
Their latest effort to redraw the ACA...

By any means they can, Donald Trump and the Republican rulers in Congress remain hell-bent on destroying the Affordable Care Act that has given better health care and peace of mind to millions of Americans. If the GOP can't shred the law outright, as...

It's less than a week until the primary election for state Senate District 40. If you've been reading this newsletter, you know the Republican race between state Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, R-Miami, and former state Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla ( and Lorenzo...

Mitch McConnell seems to have forgotten what they say about putting lipstick on a pig.
As most people know, it doesn't make the pig pretty.
The cosmetics that the Senate Majority Leader has dabbed on his misnamed "Better Care" bill improve it in some...

New research debunks yet another Republican fabrication about the Affordable Care Act.
According to a report Monday from the Kaiser Family Foundation, insurers in the ACA marketplace earned twice as much per policyholder year over year in the first of...

Nothing in history compares to the catastrophe that the Republican Congress and president intend to inflict on Americans. Over more than a century, 32 nations, including all the industrialized democracies except ours, have enacted universal health...

We can officially welcome former Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater back home to Boca, where he'll take up his new role as CFO of Florida Atlantic University. And speaking of finances, Atwater's run as state CFO was a great one for his personal finances...

It is a wicked piece of work that majority leader Mitch McConnell has been trying to ram through the Senate to strip 22 million Americans of health insurance and inflict inferior coverage and higher out-of-pocket expenses on millions more. The delay he...

Senate Republicans' bill to erase major parts of the Affordable Care Act would cause an estimated 22 million more Americans to be uninsured by the end of the coming decade - only about a million fewer than similar legislation recently passed by the House, according to the Congressional Budget Office....

Senate Republicans launched their plan for shriveling Barack Obama's health care law Thursday, edging a step closer to their dream of repeal with a bill that would slice and reshape Medicaid for the poor, relax rules on insurers and end tax increases on...

For Republicans who control Tallahassee and Washington, the playbook on unpopular legislation is the same: Work in secret and spring it on the public.
In Florida, political dark arts created the House Bill 7069, the first step toward the right-wing...

Seldom if ever has Congress spawned anything as grossly unpopular as the American Health Care Act, the bill to repeal Obamacare. National polls show just 29 percent of people approve of it. Every state is against it. For Sen. Marco Rubio's information, 48...

Sen. Mitch McConnell is planning to pass the Senate's version of the wildly unpopular health care bill to the president's desk, all in secret. Neither we the people nor the Democrats in the Senate have seen what may very well devastate millions of...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had a problem when the American Health Care Act arrived from the House last month. What to do with a bill that is clogging your agenda but only 8 percent of Americans want you to pass and members of your...

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Striking a conciliatory tone, President Barack Obama wrapped up a meeting with congressional leaders Monday by declaring himself hopeful that an agreement can be struck to keep the government running and provide money to take care of the worsening Zika...